Most tools that use wordlist don't generally care where, or what the list is called. but something like wordlist.lst (list file ) would be just fine. wordlist.txt (text file) will also work. ...

This is a "feature" in ubuntu. It is due to running root. There is not much we can do about it at the present.
The only thing I can tell you is to not lock the work station, and or change the...

Topic covered thread closed.

Go here. http://www.offensive-security.com/
We do not teach pentesting at BackTrack Linux. But the good folks at off-sec will hook you up with the best realistic penetration testing training...

Topic is covered. Please use the search feature.
Thanks.

Topic has been widely covered and there is no need to rehash this.
Closed.

Is there a reason you are going about it by using backtrack?

We are a small team, and at the present do not require more people.
Having said that a good way that you can contribute, is to be active in the forums, helping users, reporting posts that do not...

Wow what a big boat of fail this is.
I normally do not undelete threads that have been deleted by other moderators, but I am making an exception on this one.
We (the forum staff) believe in not...

Try apt-get purge nmap , apt-get update , and apt-get install nmap
There is a newer version in the repos and this problem should be fixed.

Providing us with the command and the actual (if any messages) will help us a lot here.

Might I suggest, you turn the screensaver off.

This is not really enough information to help. I'm going to also guess that this is not a BT bug, but rather a problem with hydra.
I would suggest you check out any and all resources for hydra.

Topic covered, thread closed.

Topic covered, thread closed.

This has absolutely nothing to do with BackTrack Linux.
Might I suggest the MySQL website and or google.

You are correct, that is not something we recommend, nor do we help out with. We expect our users to understand the potential risk associated with using BT, which is also one of the reasons we do not...

No need to repeat here in this thread what is covered in hundreds of other threads, not to mention the wiki as well.
Try reading them.

You should be able to run openvas, save your results, fire up msf, and then connect to the OpenvasDB, like so.

msf > openvas_connect sbh sbh 127.0.0.1 9390

Works just fine here for me on a virtualbox gnome 32bit VM freshly installed. The OpenGL and warning above are not really all that important to the operation of the tool. I got those, but I'm pretty...

Hit the forgot password link when you try to log on.

A good idea would be for you to post here what services you think may be eating up your resources.
Feel free to let us know otherwise we would just be guessing.

There are many ways in which a person could find an IP address. I would suggest you have a look on google under such search terms as "find IP address" or "determine website's IP address" or something...

Those should seem pretty relevant but, 3, and 4, are for memory (RAM) testing purposes. 5, 6, and 7 are the windows partitions, that are setup on your machine,
I would guess that one of the three...

Perhaps give it another try. That sounds like your connection to the download server is timing out. If this is case, there is not much we can do about it, unless we determine which of the download...